Kent State University Press: 593 books
The New Ray Bradbury Review
Number 6
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
Ray Bradbury recognized as a master of horror fiction
Bradbury, though a celebrated author, is often shortchanged. He is valorized within one genre (science fiction) and marginalized in others (detective fiction, film scripts, poetry, and, yes, horror fiction). His importance and influence...
by Jonathan Eller
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Each previous The New Ray Bradbury Review, prepared and edited by the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, examines the impact of Bradbury’s writings on American culture and his legacy as one of the master storytellers of his time. The late Ray Bradbury’s metaphorrich imagination led to a prolific...
Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America. Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and...
George Steinbrenner's Pipe Dream
The ABL Champion Cleveland Pipers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Steinbrenner nearly beats the Cavaliers to the NBA by eight years
In an eleventh-floor corner office in downtown Cleveland during the spring of 1961, 30-year-old George Steinbrenner sketched with his hands the future as he dreamed it. He grabbed the young basketball player who was sitting near...
Showtime in Cleveland
The Rise of a Regional Theater Center
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This work takes the reader from the city's first professional theatrical presentation in 1820, through the heyday of vaudeville, to the grand reopening of the newly renovated Allen Theater in 1999 and the return of touring Broadway shows to Cleveland.
In 1820 Cleveland was able to draw a visit...
Guilty by Popular Demand
A True Story of Small-Town Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural communityThe townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row. The occasion was the conviction of Dale N. Johnston. His trial ended nothing; the tragedies had just begun....
Canal Fever
The Ohio & Erie Canal, from Waterway to Canalway
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Original essays on the past, present, and future of the Ohio & Erie Canal
Combining original essays based on the past, present, and future of the Ohio & Erie Canal, Canal Fever showcases the research and writing of the best and most knowledgeable canal historians, archaeologists, and...
Kindly Medicine
Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines for allopathy’s mineral drugs and promoted the belief that the human body has...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The election of 1860 was a crossroad in American history. Faced with four major candidates, voters in the North and South went to the polls not knowing that the result of the election would culminate in the bloodiest conflict the United States had ever seen. Despite its obvious importance, surprisingly...
by Charles P. Hamblen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Charles P. Hamblen’s posthumous text provides the first account in more than 25 years of soldiers from the Nutmeg State and their role during the Battle of Gettysburg.Dramatic narrative is interwoven with excerpts from the letters and diaries of Connecticut’s fighting ranks to produce an extended...
The Imperfect Revolution
Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns
On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony Burns to the ship that would return him to his slaveholders in Virginia. Days earlier, handbills...
You Can't Be Mexican
You Talk Just Like Me
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A firsthand account of the immigrant experience in America
Frank Mendez, a child of Mexican immigrants begins his memoir with the story of his father’s harrowing migration from Mexico to Texas in 1920 as he escaped from Zapata’s guerrrillos and continues with his story of growing up in...
Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1996
This comprehensive guide to the early art and artists of Ohio is a compendium of hard-to-find information. The result of more than twelve years of research in community archives, newspapers, business directories, census returns, genealogical records, and manuscripts, Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900 is...
Circumstances Are Destiny
An Antebellum Woman's Struggle to Define Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A 19th-century midwestern woman’s reflections on her role in society
Celestia Rice Colby, born in Ohio in 1827, had lifestyle options that were relatively straightforward for the typical white female child born in the first half of the nineteenth century: she married in 1848, had five children,...